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Remember LiteBrite, a toy introduced in 1967 by Hasbro?
Here is the Supernova explosion process explained by SlackerAstronomy using LiteBrite as a learning tool:
“I thought that I had a solid grasp of discourse analysis, I really did. I’ve never received a mark lower than an A+ on any of the discourse analyses that I’ve written […]
I am sure most of you have heard of the Google Earth program’s Google Sky component. Well, this Spring, Microsoft will also come out with a similar Windows-only software called WorldWide Telescope.
Me, I am strictly a Mac-man so I probably won’t even personally bother using this, but the prospect of another mass-produced […]
I am really digging these lyrics and this video. It even has banjo! It goes to the tune of “The Green Grass Grows All Around.”
Round & Round
© Angelo Parisi
and the Big Band Band
There was a hole, in the galaxy
The blackest hole
That you ever did see.
In the middle of the hole was a singularity
And […]
Ben Stein is the star of a new documentary called “Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed.”
Remember, Ben Stein from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” the boring high school teacher who spoke in a toad-like monotone during classroom roll call…..Bueller? Byooolerr? The documentary is about how intelligent design scientists are being silenced and shamed, how education […]
I love working at a university and being surrounded by cosmologists. In my last post, I alluded to the idea that astronomers may one day regret calling the impulsive force pushing spacetime apart dark energy.
I was chatting with a colleague last week where we talked about this nomenclature. It may turn out that dark energy […]
The caption on wikipedia for this woodcut reads as thus, “An engraving by Albrecht Dürer, from the title page of the Masha’allah ibn Atharī’s astronomy treatise De scientia motus orbis (Latin version with engraving, 1504). As in many medieval illustrations, the compass here is an icon of religion as well as science, in reference to […]
I read a short piece of fiction recently that I really thought was good. As with most pieces of fiction, there is a certain degree of truth within it, and, in this case, it is of a factual historical reference to George Ellory Hale. For though the speaker of this short story, reminiscing […]
According to the New World Enclyclopedia:
Historically, the term mathematicus was used to denote a person proficient in astrology, astronomy, and mathematics.[1]
or the plural, if there are more than one: “mathematici”. It is strange to think of a world in which astrology was considered mathematical. But, pretty much every early civilization incorporated […]
Oh yes, it’s time for a lunar eclipse. February 20th, 2008 to be precise.Illustration Credit: NASA
In the interest of helping those who may not be familiar with the night sky, I hope this post will serve are your guide to observing a lunar eclipse.
As luck would have it, there is a lunar eclipse on February […]
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